MORTALITY RATES | STANDARD DEFINITIONS | INPATIENT CENSUS DATA | DEATH RATES | AUTOPSY RATES |
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What is used as a measure of the quality of prenatal care and the mother's prenatal behavior
Neonatal Mortality Rate
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What is the termination of hospitalization through the formal release of an inpatient by the hospital
Inpatient discharge
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What is the number of inpatients present in a hospital at any given time
Census
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What is based on the number of patients discharged alive and dead from the hospital
Hospital death rate
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What is the bodies of patients that has died but not available for autopsy
Net autopsy rates
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What is the summary of neonatal and post neonatal mortality rates
Infant Mortality Rate
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What is a patient who is provided a room, board, and continuous general nursing service while staying overnight at an acute care facility
Hospital inpatient
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What is taken at midnight and represents the total number of patients treated during a 24 hr period
Daily inpatient census
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What is the proportion of all hospital discharges that ended in death
Gross death rate
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What is the percentage of deaths followed by the performance of an autopsy
Gross autopsy rate
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What is used as an indication of the quality of the home or community environment of infants
Post neonatal Mortality Rate
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What is a patient who receives services in a hospital facility when they are currently not an inpatient or home care patient
Hospital outpatient
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What is the unit of measure that reflects the services received by one inpatient during a 24 hr period
Inpatient service day
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What is classified into categories based on length of gestation or weight
Fetal death rate
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What is the person that performs post-mortem examination
Medical Examiner
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What is the rate of death due to a specified cause
Cause-specific Mortality rate
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What is the period when a patient is in a hospital without interruption except by an intervening leave of absence
Inpatient Hospitalization
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What is the average number of inpatients treated during a given period of time
Average daily census
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What is sometimes an indicator of the availability of prenatal care in a community
Maternal death rate
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What is an adjusted rate that includes autopsies on anyone that was an hospital patient at one time
Hospital autopsy rate
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What is a measure of actual or observed mortality in a given population without regard to age, race and sex
Crude death/Morality Rate
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What is a patient born in the hospital at the beginning of the current inpatient hospitalization
Hospital newborn inpatient
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What is reported separately when calculating the average daily census
Newborns and A&C
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What is adjusted death rate that doesn't include patients that died within 48 hrs of admission
Net death rate
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What is the 2 death classifications of stillborn infants when fetal autopsies are performed
Intermediate or late
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